Welsh and Hebrew

Charles Edwards (1675) Hebrew Words and Expressions Still Extant in the Welsh Tongue

In 1675 Charles Edwards (“Hanes y Fydd”) published "A number of Welsh Cambro-Brittanic Hebraisms" in which he shows that whole phrases in Welsh can be closely paralleled by whole phrases in Hebrew.

From the list of Charles Edwards, L.G.A. Roberts (1919) made a selection and we have selected examples from Roberts after slightly modernising the Hebrew transliterations [1]: It should be noted that when account is taken for likely and known dialectical changes of pronounciation the examples given in effect show identical Welsh parallel phrases for the Hebrew original. The author of this article, Yair Davidiy, does not speak Welsh! Nevertheless, speakers of the Welsh Language (as testified by Darrell Bishop) have seen it and in principle confirmed it.

[1] There are different ways of transliterating Hebrew and the original version by Charles Edwards used a form of transliteration then extant in his time that further emphasised the inherent similarities between Welsh and Hebrew. There are also varying pronounciations found among different Jewish communities. In Ancient Israel indications are that there were differences in pronounciation among the Tribes, cf.

Judges 12: 6 then they would say to him, 'Then say, "Shibboleth"! And he would say, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

cf.

Isaiah (KJB) 36: 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Note the Hebrew word translated here "the Jews' language," is "Yehudit," i.e. "Jewish." In some translations it is translated as "Hebrew" but this is wrong. The inhabitants of Jerusalem apparently spoke their own version of Hebrew known as "Yehudit." This shows that other versions existed. So too, among the Jews the Talmud tells us that dwellers of the Galilee had their own way of pronouncing Hebrew words.

The Blessings in the Bible given to the Children of Israel were epitomized most strongly in the Tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. Ephraim dominates Britain and her daughters, Manasseh is pre-eminent in the USA.

The "KHAZARS" were a semi-nomadic people who became prominent in southern Russia and its neighborhood in the 600s to 900s CE. They were quite powerful with a far-reaching influence and well-developed civilization.

Chosen People
The Ancient Celts and related peoples referred to themselves as Hebrews.The inhabitants of Britain pertained mainly to clans belonging to Joseph. The Jews need to believe in the God of Israel and keep the Torah.